Over 60 images relating to the U.S. Capitol building in a full-color paperback. Part of Applewood's Pictorial America series, the book features images drawn from historical sources and include prin...
One of America's earliest books.
One of the most important early Pilgrim tracts to come from America, this book helped persuade others to come join those who already came to Plymouth.
The original manual of the Camp Fire Girls, an organization among whose founders were Dr. & Mrs. Luther Halsey Gulick, was published in 1912. The motto of the Camp Fire Girls, "WoHeLo," was also th...
Daniel Boone: His Own Story by Colonel Daniel Boone & The Adventures of Daniel Boone, The Kentucky Rifleman by Francis Lister Hawks.
Before Davy Crockett and Kit Carson came along to share the wild...
Originally published in 1922, the Rootabaga Stories was written by one of America's most beloved folk chroniclers, Carl Sandburg. He wrote these stories for "people from 5 to 105." "I knew that Ame...
"Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People" was originally published by Sarah Bradford in 1869. It is a classic biography of one of America's most important women. Harriet Tubman was a former slave w...
A guide to home health from Lydia Maria Child, one of the 19th Century's most popular domestic advisors and most ardent feminists. Mrs. Child's down-to-earth advice to pre-Civil War families stand...
McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book includes a pictorial alphabet plus 248 individual lessons on spelling, grammar, pronunciation, abbreviation, usage and more. This 1881 revised edition conforms to ...
With equal humour, sorrow and joy, the master storyteller brings together two worlds and turns his pen to life in Trinidad and London. Sharing tales of gossip and rivalry between village washerwome...
These are the fairy tales that history forgot - or concealed. Tales in which gender is fluid and where queer stories can have a happy ending. From the humble sailor who finds his handsome prince to...
'I seemed to be seeing double. I saw two Edies instead of one - but they weren't the same.' Edie is fascinated by Victorian times, and she's just desperate to be cast in the lead role o...